Top 100 Jesse Ventura Quotes
#1. In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
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#2. In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
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#3. The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
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#4. Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
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#5. A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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#7. I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
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#8. I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
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#9. They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
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#10. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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#11. If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
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#12. WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
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#13. I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
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#14. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
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#15. I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
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#16. Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
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#17. George Bush keeps saying that terrorists keep attacking us because we have freedom here in America. So what, the solution is to take away our freedoms and they won't attack us?
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#18. I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
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#19. You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
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#20. I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.
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#21. When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
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#22. Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
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#23. I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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#24. You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
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#25. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
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#26. For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
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#27. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)
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#28. If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
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#29. As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
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#30. I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.
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#31. Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?
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#32. I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
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#33. Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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#34. It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.
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#35. My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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#36. Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.
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#37. I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.
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#38. People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.
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#39. I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
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#40. When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
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#41. Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
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#42. I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
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#43. You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
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#44. Until you have hunted men, you haven't hunted yet.
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#45. I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.
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#46. Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.
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#47. It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!
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#48. Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
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#49. I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.
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#50. Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.
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#51. I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.
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#52. I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
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#53. [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...
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#54. I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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#55. Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
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#56. You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
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#57. If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.
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#58. Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
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#59. I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.
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#61. Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
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#62. I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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#63. If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
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#64. Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
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#67. Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
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#68. When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
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#69. I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
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#70. If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims ... Have we waterboarded anyone else?
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#72. I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.
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#73. The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
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#74. Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
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#75. I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!
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#76. Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
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#77. After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
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#79. Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
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#80. I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?
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#81. I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.
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#82. Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
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#83. There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
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#84. Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.
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#85. My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
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#86. Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.
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#87. Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.
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#88. I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
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#90. I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
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#91. What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators ... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?
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#92. I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
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#93. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
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#95. Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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#96. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.
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#97. I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
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#98. Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
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#99. The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
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